1st Marriage Harriet Marinda Brown
August 4th 1855
in Springwater, Livingston County, New York.
2nd Marriage Amanda M. (Reynolds) Colvin
April 16th 1872
in Springwater, Livingston County, New York.
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D. Byron Waite, Canadice, was born near his present residence in Canadice, February 29, 1828. His father, Capt. Benjamin G. Waite, was born in Petersburg, N. Y., April 27, 1793. He was with the Eightyy Sixth New York Volunteers in the War of 1812, under General Brown on the northern frontier in this State. He married Mary Odell, sister of the late Mrs. Lydia Baxter, the poet, and her grandfather, Abbott, fell in the Revolutionary War. Captain B. Waite died in Canadice, January 27, 1861. Peleg, grandfather of our subject, was born in West Greenwich, R. I., in 1761, and his wife was Mary Greene, whose father was a cousin of Gen. Nathaniel Grene of Revolutionary fame. Peleg was a descendant in the fifth generation of Thomas of Portsmouth, R. I., who came from England in 1634 to Boston, and went to Portsmouth in 1639. D. Byron was educated at Alfred Seminary, Clinton Liberal Institute, and at the National Law School at Ballston, and was admitted to the bar at Canton, N. Y., in 1850. He went to Council Bluffs, Ia., the same year, and was readmitted in that State. In 1852 he was elected district attorney of Mills county. He practiced but a short time, when he retired permanently. He was then engaged in the service of the American Fur Company, and in crossing emigrants for the Council Bluffs Ferry Company, and for two years traveled in the wilds of Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota, buying and collecting furs. In 1853 he returned to his native town, and was elected justice of the peace, an office he has held longer than any other incumbent in the town, but was never an aspirant for any office whatever. In 1855 he married Harriet M., daughter of Maurice Brown, an attorney at Springwater. He removed to Hastings, Minn., but owing to the ill health of his parents he returned a year later, and has resided here ever since. He has had four children: Byron Audubon, Genevra, Buretta, and Gates Percival. The two sons are at Kettle Falls, Wash. His wife died in 1869, and he married second Amanda M. Colvin, widow of the Rev. W. W. Colvin, a Methodist clergyman. Early in life Mr. Waite was a teacher in the common schools. He has devoted considerable time to collecting and writing local history, and has collected and classified the botanical subjects of his native town. He is a member of the "Ornithologists' Union," and is now engaged in writing the botanical and bird history of Canadice. In politics he is a Republican, but often votes for a competent honest Democrat rather than for a Republican of poorer qualifications. His father, Captain Waite, had four sons and two daughters, of whom D. Byron and Edwin G. are living of the sons. The latter was born in 1824 in Granville, Washington county, before the family came to this town. He went to California as a gold hunter in 1849, and has been a member of both branches of the State Legislature there, county treasurer of Nevada county, and during four administrations was naval officer of San Francisco, and after that chief clerk in the Mint. He is now secretary of state of California.
History of Ontario County
compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich
edited by George S. Conover
Published 1893
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The Naples Record
Naples, Ontario County, New York.
Friday, June 22, 1883
Mr. D. Byron Waite, of Springwater, has published a book with the title, “O-neh-da Te-car-ne-o-di; or Up and Down the Hemlock.” It gives an interesting history of the lake and its region.
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The Gazette
Livonia, Livingston County, New York.
Friday, November 17, 1905
Mr. D. Byron Waite, one of the town of Springwaters most prominent citizens, died Sunday morning at the age of 77. He had been in poor health for a number of months, and his death, therefore was not unexpected. The funeral was held Wednesday. He is survived by Mrs. Waite who is a a sister of John and S. E. Reynolds, and two sons. The testimony of his acquaintances is that he was a kind neighbor and an upright man.
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1st Marriage Harriet Marinda Brown
August 4th 1855
in Springwater, Livingston County, New York.
2nd Marriage Amanda M. (Reynolds) Colvin
April 16th 1872
in Springwater, Livingston County, New York.
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D. Byron Waite, Canadice, was born near his present residence in Canadice, February 29, 1828. His father, Capt. Benjamin G. Waite, was born in Petersburg, N. Y., April 27, 1793. He was with the Eightyy Sixth New York Volunteers in the War of 1812, under General Brown on the northern frontier in this State. He married Mary Odell, sister of the late Mrs. Lydia Baxter, the poet, and her grandfather, Abbott, fell in the Revolutionary War. Captain B. Waite died in Canadice, January 27, 1861. Peleg, grandfather of our subject, was born in West Greenwich, R. I., in 1761, and his wife was Mary Greene, whose father was a cousin of Gen. Nathaniel Grene of Revolutionary fame. Peleg was a descendant in the fifth generation of Thomas of Portsmouth, R. I., who came from England in 1634 to Boston, and went to Portsmouth in 1639. D. Byron was educated at Alfred Seminary, Clinton Liberal Institute, and at the National Law School at Ballston, and was admitted to the bar at Canton, N. Y., in 1850. He went to Council Bluffs, Ia., the same year, and was readmitted in that State. In 1852 he was elected district attorney of Mills county. He practiced but a short time, when he retired permanently. He was then engaged in the service of the American Fur Company, and in crossing emigrants for the Council Bluffs Ferry Company, and for two years traveled in the wilds of Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota, buying and collecting furs. In 1853 he returned to his native town, and was elected justice of the peace, an office he has held longer than any other incumbent in the town, but was never an aspirant for any office whatever. In 1855 he married Harriet M., daughter of Maurice Brown, an attorney at Springwater. He removed to Hastings, Minn., but owing to the ill health of his parents he returned a year later, and has resided here ever since. He has had four children: Byron Audubon, Genevra, Buretta, and Gates Percival. The two sons are at Kettle Falls, Wash. His wife died in 1869, and he married second Amanda M. Colvin, widow of the Rev. W. W. Colvin, a Methodist clergyman. Early in life Mr. Waite was a teacher in the common schools. He has devoted considerable time to collecting and writing local history, and has collected and classified the botanical subjects of his native town. He is a member of the "Ornithologists' Union," and is now engaged in writing the botanical and bird history of Canadice. In politics he is a Republican, but often votes for a competent honest Democrat rather than for a Republican of poorer qualifications. His father, Captain Waite, had four sons and two daughters, of whom D. Byron and Edwin G. are living of the sons. The latter was born in 1824 in Granville, Washington county, before the family came to this town. He went to California as a gold hunter in 1849, and has been a member of both branches of the State Legislature there, county treasurer of Nevada county, and during four administrations was naval officer of San Francisco, and after that chief clerk in the Mint. He is now secretary of state of California.
History of Ontario County
compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich
edited by George S. Conover
Published 1893
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The Naples Record
Naples, Ontario County, New York.
Friday, June 22, 1883
Mr. D. Byron Waite, of Springwater, has published a book with the title, “O-neh-da Te-car-ne-o-di; or Up and Down the Hemlock.” It gives an interesting history of the lake and its region.
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The Gazette
Livonia, Livingston County, New York.
Friday, November 17, 1905
Mr. D. Byron Waite, one of the town of Springwaters most prominent citizens, died Sunday morning at the age of 77. He had been in poor health for a number of months, and his death, therefore was not unexpected. The funeral was held Wednesday. He is survived by Mrs. Waite who is a a sister of John and S. E. Reynolds, and two sons. The testimony of his acquaintances is that he was a kind neighbor and an upright man.
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